District Quotations

Northern Advocate, 8 March 1947, Page 2

District Quotations

An average yarding was reponed by the North Auckland Farmers’ Coop. Ltd operating at Kuiiaia when- beef and boner cailie sold well. Store steers were harder to quit, due to the lack of teed. Quotations were: Good quality I'at cows. £9 to £11; fresh conditioned cows. £7/10/- IO £B/17/0; heavy boner cows, £O/10/- to £7/2/0; medium, £5/5/- to £O/8/-: light. £‘i to £5/2/-: cows and calves, £O/10/- lo £B/5/-; 2-year steers, £5/15/- to £7/1/-; yearling steers, £4/15/to £5/0/-: in-call dairy heifers, £5/17/0 to £7/2/0; heavy boner bulls, £O/10/- to • £9/2/0; lighter. £4/15/- to £O/7/6. At Hcrekino a large yarding was offered and anything (it for export met keen competition. Well grown store cattle sold freely but coloured steers and smaller good quality steers were hard to quit. Quotations were: Heavy fat cows, £ll to £l2/1/-; lighter. £tt/io/- lo £lO/15/-; fresh conditioned cows. £7/10/- lo £B/5/-; i heavy boner cows, £0 to £7/7/0; medium, £4/15/- to £5/18/-: light, £.l to £4/1/-; '•‘H, 2-year Polled Angus steers, £ll/10/- to i £l2/2/-; 2 1 ,'a-year Shorthorn suers. ; £lO/10/- to £ll/5/-: 2 : ,2-year Polled AnI gus steers. £9/10/- to £lO/12/0: 2 1 ,' z -yca|- ! Shorthorn steers, £B/5/- to £9/2/0; I 18-month steers. £O/5/- io £7/1/-; cows |and calves. £5/10/- to £O/4/-; heavy ; boner bulls. £7 to £9/12/0; others. ! £4/10/- to £7/7/0. , A fair yarding of all classes of cattle i was offered at Waimamaku where realisa- ■ tions were slightly in advance of late i rates, quotations being: 4',2-vear Shorthorn 'steers. £l2/10/-; 3‘,2-yenr steers. £9/10/Ito £lO/2/0; 2*2-y»ar coloured steers, to £8: 2ti-year Shorthorn steers. £B/10/- to £9/2/6; 18-month Shorthorn steels, £0 lo £6/12/-; 18-month coloured steers, £4/15/to £5/17/0; empty 2-year Shorthorn heifers, £4/10/-; cows and craves, £6/15/- lo £9.

An average yarding of all classes of cal tie met keen competition at Kamo, realisations being: Dairy cows, March and April culvers, £7/17/0 lo £10; dairy heifers, May ealvers, £O/17/6 to £8; fat cows. £9/10/- to £11; fat heil'ers. £6/19/to £7/10/-; boner cows, £4/15/- lo £7/8/-: boner bulls, heavy. £lO to £ll/10/-; lighter boner bulls, £8 to £9/5/-: small Jersey steers, to £3/15/-; heavy baconcr pigs. £5/15/- to £6/8/0; lighter. £5/5/to £5/15/-; heavy porkers. £3/10/- lo £4: stoies, £2/15/- to £3; weaners, 10/- lo £1; Southdown rams, to 5 gns. Wright. Stephenson and Co. Ltd, reporting on private sales transacted during the week advised as follows: 1-sluair Southdown rams. 0 lo 8 gns: 2-shear Southdown rams, to 4 gns; a line of 200 2 and 4-tooth wethers in store condition, at £l/8/-; lines of up to 148 2-tooth ewes, £l/16/0 and £l/16/-; a line of 30 in-calf Jersey heifers, at £B/5/-.

Dalgety and Co. Lid advised that the advertised entry of cattle came forward at Matapouri where a good number of buyers were in attendance. A good clearance wtts made at satisfactory rates.

j Quotations were: Killable Jersey steers, I to £l3/4/-: store conditioned 3-year steers, ! £lO/10/-: 18-month steers, £6; fat cows, j£9 to £ll/15/-; heavy boner cows, I £7/10/-: Polled Angus cows and calves, £9/11/-: empty Polled Angus cows, £7/9/-; weaner Jersey heifers, to £4/0/-. At Kamo the same firm reported a larger yarding than usual, comprising mostly boners which sold well at ruling rates. A good inquiry for all classes ol pigs' was also noted. WAIPU CALF SALE Some exceptionally good lines of Shorthorn and Jersey weaner heifer calves were offered at Dalgety and Co. Ltd’s annua! heifer and steer calf sale at Waipu. A representative bench of buyers was in attendance and some of the ‘cattle went as far afield as Tuakau, Morrinsvilie and Ihe Great Barrier Island. For the first time at this sale for many years the top "rice for Shorthorn heifer calves, which made £5/13/-. was better than that for Jerseys, which realised to £5/lt/-. Shorthorn steer calves sold to £4/5/-.

The inquiry for older cattle was slack and the same applied to the calves with the exception ol the top quality lots. Quotations were: Jersev heifers, r.w.b to £lO/5/-: others. £5/5/- to £7/10/-: fat bullocks, to £l7; small 3'a-year store steers, to £9: best Shorthorn calves, £4/10/- to £5/1,3/-; other good Shorthorn calves, £.3/10/- to £4/7/0: best Shorthorn steer calves, £3/10/- to £4/5/-; medium quality. £3 to £.7/7/6; best Jersey heifer calves, £4/15/- to £5/10/-; average quality. £.7/10/- to £4/8/-.

Ai Hnreke. the same firm reported a small yarding, where the majority of cattle changed hands at ruling rates, quotations including: Killable cows. £B/15/- lo £9/12/-: boner cows, to £O/10/-; small 18-mcnth steers. £5/10/-: 18-month Polled Angus heifers, £5/7/0. A heavv yarding was offered by Dalgetv and Co. Ltd at Paparoa. Dairy and boner cattle were penned in good numbers. best dairv cows close to protii making £lO to £ll. The advertised herd of good quality but small cal lie came forward in good condition, selling well with bast c-ows making to £9/10/-. Other quotations were: Fai cows, to £l2: other killable sorts, £9 to £lO/10/-; 3-year-o’d steers, lo £9/15/-; 2-vear-old steers, £7/15/-.

Reporting on private sales, the saVne firm advised that lines of fat wethers had changed hands at £l/14/- and £l/15/-. lIEREKINO QUOTATION'S

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Lid. operating at Herekino, reported that a large yarding of beef store and boner cattle met with an excellent demand from a representative attendance ot buyers.

Quotations were: 4| 2-year Shorthorn and Jersey-cross steers. £lO/10/.- to £l2; 3*2 and 4>2-year Polled Angus steers, £lO/12/6 to £l2/10/-: 3‘, 2-year Shorthorn, Hereford and Jersey steers, £7/15/- to £8; 2*, 2 and 3*2-year Polled Angus, Hereford and Shorthorn steers. in good condition, £B/15/- to £9/2/-; 18-month Hereford steers, £5/11/- to £6/19/-; Polled Angus store cows, £6/7/6; fat Polled Angus and Hereford cows, £9/12/- 10 £ll/3/-: fat Hereford heifers, to £l2/7/6; good boner cows, £6 ro £7/14/-; lighter, £3/12/- to £5/15/-; small 18-month dairy heilers. £2 lo £3; Hereford, Shorthorn and Polled Angus cows and cows and runners, £8 to £ll/15/-; boner bulls, £4/10/- to £7.

Alfred Buckland and Sons and Walter Wakelin Ltd report having conducted sales ai Moercwa. Parup Bay. Whakapara. Kamo and Paparoa during the week. Good yardings came forward at each centre and satisfactory sales resulted. Dairy, beef and boner cattle sold exceptionally well but owing to the weather conditions prices for store stock showed an easing tendency. Fai pigs sold well but stores and weaners were easier.

Moercwa quotations were: Fat cows. £7/10/- to £ll/10/-: cows and calves. £5 10 £B/10/-; boner cows. £4 to £7; dairy cows. £6 to £lO/10/-; Jersey heifers, r.w.b., £4/7/6 10 £7/10/-; cows in milk. £5 to £9/10/-; store cows, £6 lo £8: crossbred heifers, r.w.b., £4 lo £5/10/-: 2-year Shorthorn steers, £6 to £7; yearling steers. £3/10/- 10 £4/6/-; boner bulls, £4/13/- to £7/7/-.

Parua Bay realisai ion.s were: Forward condition cows, £6/10/- to £B/7/-; light fat heilers, to £7/15/-: heavv boner cows, £5/10/- to £7/10/-; boner bulls. £5/6/to £7; dairy cows, £5/12/6 to £8; dairy heifers. £6 to £7/15/-; cows and calves. £4/12/6 to £7/17/6: weaner Jersey heifers, £3/15/- to £4/11/-; weaner Shorthorn steers, to £4/10/-: 2-year steers. £4/10/lo £6/15/-; store lambs, 16/- to £l/3/6; sound-mohthed ewes, £l/5/-.

Quotations al Whakapara were: Light fat steers, 10 £l4/5/-; fat cows, £7 to £ll/10/-; heavy boner cows, £6 to £7/10/-; cows and calves, £6 10 £3/10/-; extra choice Shorthorn heifers, to £l2; springing Jersey heifers, lo £8; dairy cows, close’ to profit. £7 10 £lO/12/6; medium Jersey heifers, r.w.b., £5/15/-; weaner Jersey heifers, £3 ro £4/6/-.

Paparoa quotations were: Dairy cows, £7/10/- 10 £11; good quality Jersey heifers, r.w.b., £6/15/- to £7/10/-; fat cows. £8 to £l2; store cows. £6/10/- to £B/5/-; boner cows, £4/Kl/- to £7/15/-; cows and calves, £G/10/- to £9/10/-; boner bulls, £4/10/- lo £lO/10/-.

Realisnlions at Kamo were: Dairy cows, £6 to £l3; springing heifers, £6 lo £lO/5/-; extra choice Jersey heifers, r.w.b., £7 to £7/15/-; medium quality, £4/15/- to £6; cows and heifers in milk. £6 to £lO/10/-; Shorthorn dairy cows, £*7 to £lO/10/-; Shorthorn dairy heifers, £6 to £9; Ayrshire-cross heifers, r.w.b., £5/17/0; fat bullocks, £ls/10/- to £l9; fat cows, £8 to £l2/10/-; store cows, £7 lo £B/10/-; cows and runners. £O/10/- to £lO/10/-; boner cows, £5/10/- to £8; boner bulls, £5/5/- to £8; 2-year steers. £5/0/- lo £O/15/-; weaner Jersey heifers, £3 to £4; empty Shorthorn heifers, £4 to £4/10/-; heavy baeoner pigs, £0 to £O/9/-; medium baconers, £5/10/- to £0; light baconers, £5 to £5/13/-; heavy porkers, £4 to £5; medium porkers, £3/5/lo £3/15/-; light porkers. £2/5/- lo £3; large stores, £l/8/- to £2; slips, £1 to £l/11/-; weaners, 4/- to 15/-; service boars, to £4; choppers, £3/10/- to £5.